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[195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i38si2546860ede.163.2019.06.25.22.46.47 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning mhocko@kernel.org does not designate 195.135.220.15 as permitted sender) client-ip=195.135.220.15; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning mhocko@kernel.org does not designate 195.135.220.15 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mhocko@kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BEDAF03; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:46:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:46:45 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Dan Williams Cc: Christoph Hellwig , =?iso-8859-1?B?Suly9G1l?= Glisse , Jason Gunthorpe , Ben Skeggs , Linux MM , nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, Maling list - DRI developers , linux-nvdimm , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] mm: export alloc_pages_vma Message-ID: <20190626054645.GB17798@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20190613094326.24093-1-hch@lst.de> <20190613094326.24093-6-hch@lst.de> <20190620191733.GH12083@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20190625072317.GC30350@lst.de> <20190625150053.GJ11400@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20190625190038.GK11400@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue 25-06-19 12:52:18, Dan Williams wrote: [...] > > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst > > That document has failed to preclude symbol export fights in the past > and there is a reasonable argument to try not to retract functionality > that had been previously exported regardless of that document. Can you point me to any specific example where this would be the case for the core kernel symbols please? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs